The political and cultural victories for the marijuana legalization movement continue to accumulate as new…
Year: 2014
Dear NORML members and supporters, It is nearly impossible to detect the precise moment when…
As an old farm boy, it has always seemed strange to me that most states,…
Investigators from the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Oregon, and Montana State University assessed federal data on youth marijuana use and treatment episodes for the years 1993 to 2011 – a time period when 16 states authorized medical cannabis use. Authors reported, “Our results are not consistent with the hypothesis that the legalization of medical marijuana caused an increase in the use of marijuana among high school students. In fact, estimates from our preferred specification are small, consistently negative, and are never statistically distinguishable from zero.”
From 2008 to 2012, seventeen state-level jurisdictions experienced an average annual increase in marijuana arrests, the report found. South Carolina (11.6 percent) and the District of Columbia (7.7 percent) experienced the highest overall percentage increase in arrests during this time period. By contrast, annual marijuana arrests fell nationwide by an average of 3.3 percent from 2008 to 2012.
The New York Times has joined the majority of US citizens in the call for…
NORML PAC is pleased to announce its endorsement of Democratic State Senator Connie Johnson in…
